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Thanks for the advice. Lucky there's only 4 days between these sets of chicks so it's a bit less complicated than the first lot 😄

I'm worried we won't have enough room to keep 3 different broody pens. Do you think they'd be ok if we raise the second set of chicks under a lamp and re-introduce them to mum #2 when the last set of chicks hatch in a few days? Next time we will definitely put all the eggs under the hens on the...

I'm back again, your advice worked great. The first set of hatchees are doing well, and the second set just started hatching last night (we have 2 so far). There's 4 more in that set which are due to hatch in the next day or two, should they be ok to leave with mum to hatch? The 3rd set of eggs...

One more pic, babies playing hide and seek. This is the two more yellow looking chicks.

The chipmunk pattern is similar to the pure Partridge Wyandottes we hatched last year too, so I'd say those ones will have at least partial lacing or partridge colours. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Hahaha, sorry for the poop pic. Here is a photo we took of the first 2 chicks yesterday. I'll have to get some of the other 2, but don't want to disturb the mums again just yet. The other 2 both have the chipmunk pattern on them, but one is more red and the other more yellow. We're not sure...

Ok, problem solved. Liz and the remaining eggs have taken up residence in our Laundry for the time being. This way she can't see or hear Dolly and the Chicks :lol: . Also, Dolly did a very wet broody poop. Is this normal? It stinks like broody poop, but I haven't seen one that watery before.

To make it a bit less confusing which hen I'm talking about I'll use their names. The 2 in the brooder box are Dolly and Queen Liz. The 3rd broody is Jane Fonda. Would we be better off moving Liz with the remaining eggs and putting her back in the main pen until the eggs hatch, and as the next...

The issue is we don't really have anywhere to put the 1st hen and chicks where the 2nd hen couldn't hear them. We'd have to set up a separate pen for her, but the other hen would still hear the chicks. Would we be better off just bringing the chicks inside and brooding them ourselves until the...

We don't have an incubator, but we have heat lamps. We raised chicks under the lamp last year with no issues, so taking the chicks out and raising them that way isn't an issue. But we couldn't incubate the eggs that way. If we do that, can we reintroduce them to the mums once the other eggs...

So I want to preface by saying that I realise we've done this wrong and should have put all the eggs under the hens at the same time. Lesson learnt for next time. We have 2 broody hens sitting on about 18 eggs. They kinda share the eggs, and if one sees an egg poking out from under the other...

Me too. I would love to know if there's some way to identify it but we really have no idea what we could do.

I'll give it a try next time we clean the wound.

I thought the same thing when it was inside him, but now that we've removed it I'm not entirely sure. It seems too long, and weird shaped at the darker end? I honestly have no idea. See page 5 for the updated images of the object once we'd removed it.

Here' is a close-up of the part that was inside him. I don't know what those white dots on it are, and it looks like there's a groove down the centre. Maybe it is a deformed feather? It looks a bit like the hollow part of a quill pen, so wondering if that's the hollow part on the inside of the...

Here he is, weird object free and seems happy.

Update: So we had yet another feel of the thing. When we were inspecting it we could feel that there was some give in it, and once it came out a tiny bit we could feel the end of it inside him. Definitely NOT attached. We decided to remove it. It came out fairly easily, and the roo was calm the...

So we've had a better feel of the thing, and it's in quite deep and feels like it's attached somewhere in there. Maybe it's not attached and just feels that way because of how deep it is, but we're not comfortable pulling it out. We did gently try pulling on it very slightly just to see if it...

Yep, before we do anything like attempting to pull it out I'll do some research and make sure we have the right things on hand, something to stop bleeding, something to wash the wound to prevent infection, etc. Since it's not causing him any issues or pain I don't think we need to rush into...

Thanks for your replies so far. When we get a chance later today or tomorrow I'll try and see just how far it's stuck into him, whether it's just in the skin or in the muscle as well. From there we can see whether we think it's safe to pull out or not.